Posts Tagged ‘Simon Singh’
A bitter PIL to swallow
You couldn’t make it up!
That’s almost become a overused exclamation in the blogosphere these days, particularly when yet more idiotic woo claims are uncovered. But it also applies to the shenanigans over the General Chiropractic Council‘s Patient Information Leaflet (PIL).
I get anonymous chiropractic mail, I do!
A few weeks ago, I was sent a copy of the 12 August edition of the Southend Echo, which carried an advert for a chiropractic clinic in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. The paper was folded to expose this advert for the Cliffs Chiropractic Clinic Ltd:
What was strange about this was that it was sent to me anonymously. Through the post. To my home address.
If it walks like a chiropractor and quacks like a chiropractor…
Way back in May, I wrote a blog post about some Advertising Standards Authority adjudications against chiropractors. It’s time we took a closer look at one of them. Well, two separate adjudications upheld against one company, Optimum Health Centres (OHC). (Be warned — it’s a horrible Flash website.)
Richard Dawkins to address Lib Dem Conference to call for libel law reform
Today [Sunday] Professor Richard Dawkins will put the case for libel law reform to the Liberal Democrat conference proposing an amendment to the civil liberties bill.
The scientist and author is to appear as a guest speaker at Liberal Democrat Party Conference on Sunday.
Professor Dawkins will tell the conference that the chilling effect of libel laws on public debate about science and medicine, on writers and authors and on responsible journalism can no longer be ignored.
And they just keep coming…
Those champions of woo busting strike again. More ASA adjudications — to be formally published tomorrow — showing what is and isn’t acceptable as evidence required to substantiate claims made.
Pulling up the drawbridge
Some things at least happen quickly at the General Chiropractic Council (GCC).
The GCC have recently co-opted someone else to their Investigating Committee (IC). He is Kalim Mehrabi, who is a Director of the McTimoney College of Chiropractic, a colleague of the College’s Principal, Christina Cunliffe who sits of the GCC’s Council.
So, the GCC’s Investigating Committee now has 11 members, with seven chiropractors and four lay members:
Sheila Hollingworth (Chair)
Kathryn Adams chiropractor (BCA member)
Graham Donald (Deputy Chair)
Carl Gardner
Anthony Kerrigan chiropractor
Jane McKenzie-Riley chiropractor
Helen Kitchen (co-opted, GCC legal advisor)
Aaron Coode chiropractor (co-opted, BCA member and works for the AECC)
Amanda Jones-Harris chiropractor (co-opted, BCA member and works for the AECC)
Kenneth Vall chiropractor (co-opted, BCA member and Principal of the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic)
Kalim Mehrabi chiropractor (co-opted and Director of the McTimoney College of Chiropractic)
When only the best will do
Yet more interesting Advertising Standards Authority adjudications, published yesterday.
I see, it’s not who you are…
In a comment on my last blog post, I mentioned that the General Chiropractic Council (GCC) had appointed two more chiropractors to their Investigation Committee (IC): Aaron Coode and Amanda Jones-Harris. Both work at the Anglo European College of Chiropractic (just how did they ever get a .ac.uk domain?) and both are members of the British Chiropractic Association (BCA).
Now, what was that Section 60 Order all about again?
Remember the General Chiropractic Council’s Section 60 Order application to the Privy Council?
The reply I got from the GCC, when I asked what it was all about, wasn’t exactly forthcoming about the nature of the changes, despite it being somewhat wordy.
But we know now.
A claim or not a claim: that is the question
Yet more Adventures in nonsense from Simon; this time about the General Chiropractic Council (GCC) trying to persuade Trading Standards that chiropractic is effective for some conditions, whilst not actually claiming that chiropractic is effective for some conditions.
